Re: Describing current practice for 301 and 302
Dave Long (dave@navisoft.com)
Wed, 31 Jan 1996 14:08:07 -0800
>>If so, why on earth would they do that?
>
>Historical reasons, I believe. A very old version of the HTTP
>specification could be interpreted as requiring a change to GET on
>redirection.
It makes sense in the context of imagemap-like CGI's, which tend
to return redirections to regular pages, not redirects to another
CGI.
Should we rely on servers to ignore queries for non-searchable resources?
-Dave